Prof. Dr. Nora Szech

Nora Szech holds the Chair for Political Economy at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She works on market and competition design, with a focus on welfare implications and morally relevant behavior, combining theoretical as well as empirical research methods. The applications of her work range from auction design over labor markets and diversity to ethical consumption and health. Her work has been published in leading interdisciplinary outlets as well as in leading field journals (such as Science, Management Science, Journal of Economic Theory). Various international and national media outlets have reported on her work (such as The Wallstreet Journal, Huffington Post, Forbes, as well as Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die ZEIT).

Before she joined the KIT in 2013, Nora was Professor for Industrial Economics at the University of Bamberg. She did her postdoc (Akademischer Rat) at the Chair of Benny Moldovanu at the University of Bonn (from 2010 to 2012). Also under the supervision of Benny Moldovanu, she did her PhD at the University of Bonn, as a scholar of the Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE). Her thesis was awarded the best thesis of the year (2010) at the University of Bonn across all fields. Nora has received the Reinhard Selten Award. She is a fellow of the Berlin Social Science Center (Economics of Change), of CESifo (Munich), and a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), based at the University of Chicago (IL). Nora received calls for professorship positions also from the Universities of Bonn, Dortmund, Konstanz, and Passau.

Awards, Fellowships, Editorial Activities

Member of the Editorial Board of the European Economic Review (since 2018)